"Perseverance in faith is, in one sense, the condition of justification; that is, the promise of acceptance is made only to a persevering sort of faith, and the proper evidence of it being that sort is its actual perseverance." -- Jonathan Edwards
This is probably one of the best put definition of the faith we need to have in order to be justified by God.
We are justified by faith alone, and this faith is a kind of faith that perseveres. "the proper evidence of sort of persevering faith is its actual perseverance." So if a Christian who claims to have faith but did not stay in the faith, but abadons it later in his life, his faith is not a persevering type of faith, and that kind of cannot justify him in front God. Brilliant! These old people talks weird, but are truly spiritual giants.
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